THE AGITATION OF ANNA HAZARE

"We should see it carefully as, sooner than later, India and Pakistan too standing in line for this tempest, devastating west Asia, have to face it-astrologically, yes astrologically. The 2011 Hindu New Year horoscope for India and Pakistan is frightening." (22 Feb 2011 morning 00.53) LIBYA AND GADDAFI: The Bell Tolls
KN RAO

That was the prediction made on 22 Feb 2011 and the Anna movement, the movement of a noble and Gandhian movement started after the Hindu New Year started from 3 April.
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Moon moving into Mithuna, joining Mars and aspected by Saturn shows some spreading melancholy. This was the prediction made on 23 August and the all party meeting has rejected the Janlokpal bill of Anna’s team. There is all round gloom and fear of some bad repurcussions.

There is also the fear of Anna being forcibly carried to hospital by the police as Sachn foresaw and predicted.

My guess that But when the all party meeting takes place today , perhaps after 10 am. Anna will be successfully persuaded to give up his fast.” has to be seen in some hours from now.(8/24pm 24/8/2011).

Further predictions which will have to be watched are. But one can see some parliamentary action on 29 and 30 August when Moon enters Simha and joins Sun and Venus.

Time for some parliamentary legislation is clearly visible  in the Republican horoscope and also in the Independence horoscope but the unlifted confusion created by the antardasha of Rahu is not disappearing. =====================
The Hindu New Year began on April 3 and on 5th started the Anna Hazare agitation which shook up the nation and reminded people of the movement launched by Jayaprakash Narayan in 1973-75 period. Some people have even started saying that 1975 emergency situation is repeating.

“Unstoppable tornado of outrage” said one television channel in a prominent headline. But it was over peacefully, very gracefully after one nine days of fasting by Anna Hazare who himself was surprised by the tremendous response he got and he has said like a realist that the fight had only begun.

Eight times not passed
Remember that this bill have not been passed eight times in the last more than thirty years. Comparing it with the fate of Women’s Reservation Bill may not be correct as there was no mass movement in favour of it as there has been in favour of Jan Lokpal Bill.

What are astrological and socio-political indications ?
1).That such movement would come in India was predicted on 22 Feb 2011.
2).It was clear in the Hindu New Year horoscope.
3) When Jupiter and Saturn opposed each othe from Meena and Kanya it got a crystallised shape when this phenomenon repeats from Tula and Mesha in  November this year some more developments can be expected .

Anna , Mahatma and JP
As in cricket, people fall into the temptations of comparing the greats of one generation with that of another, here too English newspaper like Guardian, compared Anna Hazare with Mahatma Gandhi. Some are comparing JP and Anna. It is better to say that Anna is great, a true Gandhian from what we know of  him and his achievements in his village, Ralegan Siddhi.

The storm that television channels had created over the arrest of Anna Hazare is a tribute to the energy and vitality of Indian democracy, to the freedom of press India enjoys that the government allows and respects. Minute by minute, the extensive coverage that has been given to this event should not be forgotten. Anna’s movement became a mass movement or had mass sympathy in no time. In a democracy like India, the  politicians in entrenched power cannot crush it as, say, in Asad’s Syria.

Entire world has got interested in this movement and the UPA II government of India cannot disgrace itself by taking repressive action. It will try its best to foil this through various methods, honorable to sinister. It is why the government verson of Lokpal Bill was drafted in a hurry to render Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal look superflous and redundant: and they kept the real culprits out of the reach of Lokpal:they kept the intelligenc agencies under their control to continue to have strong protective shields for their own safety. It is known that many leaders of  political parties would not want a Jan Lokapal ever to be enacted as they would be caught and punished, though opportunistially the opposition uses it as an argument against the ruling UPA II.

An agitation in this era of  twenty four hours news channels, an event like this, agitation against corruption, becomes a nation wide storm in only few hours. It was not so in April 1974 when the great Jaya Prakash Narain launched his sampoorna kranti or total revolution  I  witnessed day after day in Patna where I was posted then.

The difference is that more than once, in 1974, I saw the brutal lathi charge of the Abdul Gaffar government over agitators then from close range. In this case, I have watched it on television and have admiration for the grace and restraint of Delhi police.

Raking up the ashes and dust of history, no wonder some people are comparing the two--J.P. revolution and the agitation of Anna.

But Anna’s agitation is more difficult because it is against an ingrained tendency of human nature, the spontaneous capitalist instinct in man, as Mao had called it. JP’s agitation was against mighty Indira Gandhi: Anna’s against a mighty human tendency ---greed leading to corruption .
          
It is clear from the horoscope of Hindu New Year 2011 with planets in the sixth house aspected by Saturn and the Saturn-Jupiter opposition joined by Mars making it violent as happened with the agitation of Baba Ramdeo.

Arguments will always be there whether  an agitation to get passed a bill like Janlokpal eclipses the role of parliament. The great JP had answered it in his letter to Indira Gandhi when he was arrested in June 1975.
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July 21, 1975
Chandigarh
Dear Prime Minister,
In a democracy the citizen has an inalienable right to civil disobedience when he finds that other channels of redress or reform have dried up. It incites and accepts his lawful punishment. This is the new dimension added to democracy by Gandhi. What an irony that it should be obliterated in Gandhi's own India!

Moreover, it is a false choice that you have formulated. There is no choice between democracy and the nation. If was for the good of the nation that the people of India declared in their Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 that "We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Democratic Republic…give to ourselves this Constitution." That democratic Constitution cannot be changed into a totalitarian one by a mere ordinance or a law of Parliament. That can be done only by the people of India themselves in a new Constituent Assembly, especially elected for that specific purpose. If Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity have not been rendered to 'all its citizens' even after a quarter of a century of signing of that Constitution, the fault is not that of the Constitution or of democracy but of the Congress party that has been in power in Delhi all these years. It is precisely because of that failure that there is so much unrest among for that. On the other hand, it only compounds the failure.

You have accused the Opposition and me of every kind of villainy. But let me assure you that if you do the right things, for instance, your 20 points, tackling corruption at Ministerial levels, electoral reform, etc., take the Opposition into confidence, heed its advice; you will receive the willing cooperation, of every one of us. For that you need not destroy democracy. The ball is in your court. It is foryou to decide.
(Jayaprakash Narayan)

The hard fight of Anna is shown in the navamsha of the New Year horoscope when the tenth lord is debilitated in the fourth house and gets aspected both by Saturn and Mars.

The saving grace both in the birth horoscope and navamsha is the aspect of Jupiter on the tenth house, promising some sanity to prevail and some weak idealism to spring  up in India’s public life.

“Weak idealism” is what must be repeated here because passing a bill to be followed by proper action has alway been a problem as in the case of Anti Corruption Act, Anti-Dowry Act etc. which exist in breach as the Sharada Act, prohibiting child marriages has been since British times.

The difference here is the great social opinion preceding this agitation. Every reform without social support has been a failure in India.

Therefore, let us be prepared for disturbance, agitation and very uneasy times ahead.

Let me repeat what I wrote on 23 Feb 2011.
"We should see it carefully as, sooner than later, India and Pakistan too standing in line for this tempest, devastating west Asia, have to face it--astrologically, yes astrologically. The 2011 Hindu New Year horoscope for India and Pakistan is frightening." (22 Feb 2011 morning 00.53) LIBYA AND GADDAFI: the bell tolls
KN RAO

(24 August 2011)

PS  Talks are still going on while I am writing it. (8/37 pm)